EAN 9780954195809

This book describes the reason for the purpose-building of Clapham, an entire parish of hundreds of houses within Gloucester City in 1825, its imported population from the Midlands, the development of its admirable culture over successive generations, its triumph over poverty and social adversity, and details of its mutually supportive day-to-day life as observed in the Thirties and Forties, with emphasis upon its legion of astonishing characters. The tragic and foolish raising, in the Nineteen Fifties, of its hundreds of houses, shops, pubs and streets by the City Fathers in the name of Progress resulted in the scattering Clapham's population being moved to various remote dwellings built in fields around Gloucester's rural perimeter. This resulted in robbing the older folks of their mutually supportive culture, causing them to swiftly die in their hordes.